Re: [PATCH] man1/*: ffix, change '-' to '\-' for options

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

On 7/2/20 12:05 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
>   Change '-' to '\-' for the prefix of names to indicate an option.

Patch applied. (And thanks for splitting these patches into
sections; it makes the patches smaller and therefore easier 
to review).

Cheers,

Michael

> Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
> ---
>  man1/locale.1       | 8 ++++----
>  man1/memusage.1     | 2 +-
>  man1/memusagestat.1 | 4 ++--
>  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man1/locale.1 b/man1/locale.1
> index 587795728..5506354bd 100644
> --- a/man1/locale.1
> +++ b/man1/locale.1
> @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ the behavior is as follows:
>  .BR \-a ", " \-\-all\-locales
>  Display a list of all available locales.
>  The
> -.B -v
> +.B \-v
>  option causes the
>  .B LC_IDENTIFICATION
>  metadata about each locale to be included in the output.
> @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ metadata about each locale to be included in the output.
>  .BR \-m ", " \-\-charmaps
>  Display the available charmaps (character set description files).
>  To display the current character set for the locale, use
> -\fBlocale -c charmap\fR.
> +\fBlocale \-c charmap\fR.
>  .PP
>  The
>  .B locale
> @@ -195,8 +195,8 @@ in the shell profile file so that the custom locale will be used in the
>  subsequent user sessions:
>  .PP
>  .EX
> -$ \fBmkdir -p $HOME/.locale\fP
> -$ \fBI18NPATH=./wrk/ localedef -f UTF-8 -i fi_SE $HOME/.locale/fi_SE.UTF-8\fP
> +$ \fBmkdir \-p $HOME/.locale\fP
> +$ \fBI18NPATH=./wrk/ localedef \-f UTF-8 \-i fi_SE $HOME/.locale/fi_SE.UTF-8\fP
>  $ \fBLOCPATH=$HOME/.locale LC_ALL=fi_SE.UTF-8 date\fP
>  $ \fBecho "export LOCPATH=\e$HOME/.locale" >> $HOME/.bashrc\fP
>  $ \fBecho "export LANG=fi_SE.UTF-8" >> $HOME/.bashrc\fP
> diff --git a/man1/memusage.1 b/man1/memusage.1
> index 9292fb8f0..ce50e6f16 100644
> --- a/man1/memusage.1
> +++ b/man1/memusage.1
> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ can also be intercepted.
>  can output the collected data in textual form, or it can use
>  .BR memusagestat (1)
>  (see the
> -.B -p
> +.B \-p
>  option,  below)
>  to create a PNG file containing graphical representation
>  of the collected data.
> diff --git a/man1/memusagestat.1 b/man1/memusagestat.1
> index 411622446..a1c40cd86 100644
> --- a/man1/memusagestat.1
> +++ b/man1/memusagestat.1
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ creates a PNG file containing a graphical representation of the
>  memory profiling data in the file
>  .IR datafile ;
>  that file is generated via the
> -.I -d
> +.I \-d
>  (or
>  .IR --data )
>  option of
> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ The red line in the graph shows the heap usage (allocated memory)
>  and the green line shows the stack usage.
>  The x-scale is either the number of memory-handling function calls or
>  (if the
> -.I -t
> +.I \-t
>  option is specified)
>  time.
>  .SH OPTIONS
> 


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